Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 7-1-2004
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Volume
609
Issue
1
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society
Abstract
We report the results of a deep near-infrared survey with the Very Large Telescope/Infrared Spectrometer and Array Camera of the environment of the supernova remnant N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which contains the soft gamma repeater SGR 0526-66. Two of the four confirmed SGRs are potentially associated with compact stellar clusters. We thus searched for a similar association of SGR 0526-66 and imaged a young stellar cluster at a projected distance of ∼30 pc from the SGR. This constitutes the third cluster–SGR link and lends support to scenarios in which SGR progenitors originate in young dusty clusters. If confirmed, the cluster-SGR association constrains the age and thus the initial mass of SGR progenitors
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Published version can be found here: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-4357/609/1/L13